Best Rising Tide Poems

Adrift in dreams while romance reading
Asleep e're night shadows began creeping 
She lay puddled in moonlight's rising tide— 
Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' at her side

In reverie, Elizabeth stood on the misty moor 
for what seemed to her a lifetime of waiting
Held her breath when in front of her he stood
Sighing as Darcy brushed a...

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There once was a climate change doubter
He really was quite a shouter
Until late one night
The high tide just right
Found the beach house he loved under water

24 December 2015...

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One school shooting in Alabama
  And another in Louisiana

Here's a protest in the park
  That's gone on and on past dark

There's an angry rising tide 
  Demanding gun-violence to subside  

Courage and Change ~ Where Are You??
  (Ooh, Ooh, America: Wake up!)...

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I can’t erase or even hide
All the things I feel inside
Each time I look at your brown eyes
And quiver with such pride.

For even though these tears I’ve cried
Spilled for you, I smile wide
Each time we fight for one another
Against the rising tide

Of life. Simply put, the world outside
Won’t allow a love untried
And of the love...

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Thousands of people 
   out in the street
Voices cry out in  
    the chill autumn air
They are crying out 
    for better government policies 
which hopefully will be a healing balm 
    for the public's wounds
Speakers ascend the platform 
   ...

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You thought that I’d be weak, one easy to subdue
You wove your web of lies and never followed through
But in the dark, I swam the depths none other could withstand
I fought for love, I fought the pain with bloodstained, aching hands

Through the dark I held him, but at dawn he slipped away
The warrior fought against...

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